120 – Family Meeting
“John! John! John! John! John!”
Dadadak!
I heard Sierra’s booming voice from afar.
3, 2, 1
Boom!
The dormitory door opened and Sierra appeared. She looks like she found a ticking time bomb.
Sierra raised her head to look at me, her flushed face and her gasping for breath.
“Did you hear the news?”
As you’ve already heard, Sierra came here sweating like that, so she needs to be polite. I asked her with a curious look on her face.
“What news?”
“School is closed! The academy is closed indefinitely!”
Sierra shouted, raising her arms like a grizzly bear in her attacking position.
Academy closed.
This is the first time the academy has been closed since it was established. Truly unprecedented.
No, the managing director is correct, but the second managing director is not.
If you follow the flow of the original work, the academy closure order will happen in the middle of the third year.
This is an official case. Now, the event happened much faster than it should have happened.
The school closure order has not yet been announced as an official school schedule, but that information has already been spread throughout the academy.
I heard directly from Professor Reina. Rumors must have spread to the group dormitory by now. Sierra heard the rumors and came.
“John! Yohan Gouwoon! Yohan Guuun!”
Like Sierra just a moment ago, Lir came running, raising her voice to the fullest.
Her voice draws closer with a Doppler effect.
3, 2, 1
Thump!
Lirre opens the door and appears just like Sierra and her counterpart.
Sierra looked at Lire and smiled her winner’s smile. Did she say that she was one step faster?
“I heard the news… ! Miss Sierra!”
“hehehe! Lil, you’re late! Parring swordsmanship seems to be weak against speed.”
“Ehh… ! No wonder a rogue is more agile than a swordsman! But, even if you’ve already heard, I’ll let you know! Mr. John! Listen carefully! What an academy..”
“John! John! John! John!”
The next hitter is Arsha. Did you guys tease each other?
3, 2-
Thump!
“Did you hear the news!? Yes? Two people came. Did you hear?”
“Sister, wait! This, looking at the situation, I think both Ellie and Sarah will come, but let’s talk about it when we all get together.”
“If everyone knows, do I need to tell you?”
It’s a lot more noisy than usual today.
I don’t really hate this atmosphere.
“John Baked!”
“John!”
3-
Thump!
Ellie and Sara came in amicably. I think we met while coming.
“”Did you hear the rumor-“”
“I heard you! Oh my. What kind of fuss is this?”
In this way, my dormitory naturally became a forum for discussion. It wasn’t intentional, but all the cooking circle members gathered.
“Closing the academy! Even indefinitely!? Aren’t you crazy?”
Arsha with an enraged expression.
The academy’s school closure order, in other words, would be an indefinite vacation, but our honor student Arsha seems to be better off going back to school than vacation. A sensation that is hard to understand for me, who went through middle school and high school and university in real life.
I think the fact that I have to be away from my friends without a promise is a bit lonely. However, it wouldn’t be difficult for a noble like Arsha to meet other people, but she seemed to be quite happy with her academy life.
“Sure. It’s said until Angra Mainyu’s movements calm down, but I don’t know when that will be….”
Sierra laments like Arsha.
However, Sierra smiled as she held onto my arm as if she had remembered something.
“Wait. Come to think of it, if school is closed, you’re staying with Yohan, right? This might not be bad.”
“Ah! Bad brother You’re not trying to cut in line, are you?”
“Cutting in line! Sister, let me tell you, I am the first one in line!”
Suddenly, Sierra and Arsha are sending fierce eyes like a dog.
It is difficult to define the relationship between the two. Sometimes they fight like enemies, but other times they stay close to the world. Do real sisters feel that way?
I don’t know because I don’t have a brother.
“Wait! Miss Sierra! How does that happen!?”
“Huh? I used to live under the same roof as Yohan?”
“What, what, what, what!?”
Lir was so surprised that her eyes popped out.
“This, already under one roof!? Mr. John! That nonsense! Is it true?”
“Well, it’s true. There are various circumstances.”
Because I’m the one who brought Sierra wandering the streets. I have to take responsibility.
“Certainly, I don’t like the school closure order, but if the cause is Angra Mainyu, I can’t help but understand it~ Isn’t Sara-san like that too~?”
Ellie looked at Sarah and said.
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Sarah is a person who was directly caught up in the last truth library incident.
The sense of danger she feels towards Angra Mainyu is much higher than the others.
At Ellie’s words, Sara nodded her head in response.
“Surely so. They are never easy to see. Even the Church of the Sun only drove them out of the shadows, not completely annihilating them.”
“Honestly, the knowledge I learn at the academy is so high that school closures don’t hinder my training…. It’s a pity that I can’t see your faces.”
Arsha coolly reveals her true feelings.
Looking at it this way, Arsha seems to have changed tremendously. When I first met her at the academy, she seemed like a rose with a lot of thorns, but now she seems to have lost her energy and become docile.
Personally, I think it’s a good change. She has a lot of friends as well.
“Me too! Especially, the fact that I can’t eat Yohan’s cooking is really disappointing~!”
Ellie also stirred her body vigorously and expressed her regret. Even if it’s not for a long time, we’re bound by culinary circles.
Since she went through various incidents and built her own bond, it was not easy to break up with her. Even Sierra, who likes to monopolize me, is a bit depressed.
“Over there…. May I make a suggestion?”
Sara opened her mouth cautiously. She gulps down her saliva as she tries to say something and looks back at us sadly.
“During school closure, I would like to invite you to our Leoris family.”
Sarah’s bombshell remarks.
At Sarah’s words, everyone except me widened their eyes and asked back.
“Leoris invites you? To your mansion?”
At Arsha’s question, Sara nodded her head vigorously.
“Yes. Our mansion has magic as well as swordsmanship training facilities. It would be a perfect environment for training. If it’s not enough, I’ll tell Dad so he can get some extra equipment.”
“That, you don’t have to go that far….”
“An invitation from the Leoris family! Is it okay to accept this invitation at will?”
Sara answered Eli’s sincere question with a slight blush on her cheek. Sarah’s expression showed the freshness of a high school girl handing a love letter to her crush.
“I…. I don’t want to part with my friends so quickly.”
Sarah has grown even more due to the truth library incident.
Sarah did not hesitate to confess her true feelings. It is the moment when a girl becomes a lady.
“Leoris Mansion! I am interested.”
Leer’s opinion is positive.
“Whoops! As the heir to the Janet Merchants, we cannot miss the gold that has rolled in!”
Ellie is about to die of excitement.
“Is this our second visit?”
Arsha looks okay too, Sierra looks a bit disappointed, but with a nod of her head, she agrees to the temporary camp.
I am the only one left.
“Good.”
I have no reason to refuse. No, you shouldn’t refuse.
Five heroines gathered with difficulty.
It’s a great opportunity to grow them.
A story slowly moving towards its conclusion.
In order to defeat the true evil, all of them must do their part. It’s such a pity that it remains as a mere trait shuttle.
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The Leoris family mansion.
The Leoris family is the second largest family on the continent, but the interior is surprisingly quiet.
The Leoris family, whether direct or collateral, tends to become independent quickly.
Therefore, surprisingly, there are not many blood relatives protecting the mansion.
The owner of the house, Ralph Leoris, and the family’s master, Selena Leoris, live there, and their daughter, Sarah Leoris, lived there before entering the academy. In other words, the blood relatives protecting the mansion are the three direct relatives.
The person who occasionally stops by the mansion is Viette Leoris, Ralph’s sister.
Most of the rest are employees. As it is the best magic house on the continent, there are many places to manage, so there are dozens of servants, but it is quiet for a famous family.
That was the usual appearance of the Leoris family, but today’s appearance was completely different from that usual.
The family’s drawing room, “Breathside of Ashes”
A spacious drawing room with a warm fireplace with red flames.
A rectangular table is placed in the center. A huge table that can comfortably seat dozens of people is placed on top of a silver candlestick and a vase decorated with gold leaf.
The flower in the vase is a rare plant called Palsaekcho. Its cost is approximately 1 gold per root.
One of the ways to determine the rich family is to determine whether the eight-colored plants are fresh flowers or artificial flowers. It is an expensive flower that symbolizes nobility and luxury.
The red flame burning in the fireplace next to the table wasn’t just a flame. The ‘Spirit of Eternity’ created by the family’s founder, Helen Leoris.
The sacred flame that has never been extinguished for hundreds of years is said to be a magic that can only be performed by a wizard who has reached the 9th circle, the limit of humanity. Indeed, since Helen, no one has ignited that flame, and no one has quenched it.
“Uncle. Long time no see.”
“Yes, it’s been a while. I am only sorry for calling a family meeting over such a bad matter.”
“Don’t worry. Aren’t you a bad brother? The bad ones are Angra Mainyu.”
“Uncle! Clear your face! Uncle’s heroic courage is reported in the newspaper. How can the hero who raised the honor of our Leoris family, who claim to be the light of the continent, be so sad?”
“Zeek! You should call me the lord. Didn’t someone say that if you’re a great nobleman, you have to keep the proper formality?”
“Ah, it’s okay. Because it suits him better.”
Even though it was a meeting of a noble family with the highest level of etiquette, the atmosphere was somewhat lighthearted because it was a family gathering. It seemed that this light atmosphere was created on purpose to erase the bad feeling that has been flowing in the royal capital lately.
“Everyone has come, and the little ones have been put upstairs, so Viet will take care of it.”
“I can’t see Sarah. If it’s Sara’s level, can’t we join the family meeting now?”
“I am receiving a guest from my classmate who is visiting.”
All those gathered here are advanced mages from 6th circle or higher.
It can be said that the power here alone is responsible for half of the kingdom’s total magical power without any penalty. It was a terrifying sight that showed the dignity of the Leoris family.
Each person has a different face, way of speaking, and behavior, but what they all have in common is burning red hair.
It was the biggest characteristic inherited from the founder, Helen Leoris. The Leoris family was the only one on the continent who was born with such pure intelligence.
“Okay. Normally, I’d start slowly, lifting weights, but today I’ll go faster. We ask for your understanding.”
Ralph Leoris has no playfulness.
This was a very rare appearance.
Ralph is an incredibly lighthearted person who is believed to be the head of a great aristocratic family. The family members were more familiar with Ralph, so they could guess the seriousness of the situation just by looking at Ralph.
“I will start the first family meeting this year.”